Meet the Writers
Georgina Godwin in conversation with top authors. Explore their inspirations, writing processes, and the stories behind their books.
Latest Episodes
Shrabani Basu
Basu is the author of ‘Victoria and Abdul’ – now a major film starring Judi Dench. Basu tells Georgina Godwin how her background as a journalist, as well as her love of history, led to her books that tell the shared past of India and Britain.
Andrew Holgate
What Andrew Holgate thinks influences what you read. As literary editor of ‘The Sunday Times’ his reviews and best-seller charts have a big impact on book sales. He tells us how he chooses what should be on your bookshelf.
Ashok Ferrey
We head to the Fairway Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka to meet award-winning local author Ashok Ferrey. He tells Georgina Godwin about his journey from Oxford maths graduate to builder to one of the nation’s favourite authors.
Paula Hawkins
The author of ‘Girl on a Train’ tells Georgina Godwin about her journey from sleepy Harare to producing one of the bestselling books of recent times.
Eimear McBride
McBride’s stream-of-consciousness style has brought her numerous awards for her two novels, ‘A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ and ‘The Lesser Bohemians’. The former actress is now considered one of the foremost novelists working in the UK. She tells us about her unique style.
Joanna Walsh
To call Walsh just an award-winning author would be a disservice. She’s also a journalist, campaigner, a literary judge, speaker and a diarist. She spoke to Georgina Godwin about her extraordinary output.
Leïla Slimani
Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious award for literature, the Prix Goncourt. Her international bestseller ‘Lullaby’ has just been translated into English and she’s been appointed French president Emmanuel Macron’s personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. She talks to Georgina…
Professor Muhammad Yunus
Meet the man who invented micro finance and has won the Nobel Peace prize for his endeavours to end poverty. He tells us about his latest book, A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions, which argues that we need…
Jeetendr Sehdev
Sehdev, professor of marketing at the University of Southern California, is best known for pioneering a scientific, research-based approach to quantify celebrity influence. He’s now written an eye-opening guide to understanding why only the boldest and baddest ideas survive – and here shares his tips on how to make sure…
Vanessa Nicolson
Vanessa Nicolson worked as an art historian and journalist before publishing ‘Have You Been Good?’ in 2015, her debut memoir about growing up in one of the UK’s most eminent aristocratic and artistic families. Her second memoir, a series of vignettes called ‘The Truth Game’ was released earlier this year.…
